You, as the client, have the right to:
1. Receive respectful assistance.
2. Experience a safe setting, free from physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
3. Refuse assistance or a particular intervention strategy.
4. Ask questions at any time.
5. Know how available the advocate/supportive counselor is to see you or what the waiting period is.
6. Have information regarding the advocate/supportive counselor's areas of specialization and limitations.
7. Have consults with each advocate to choose which one you feel most comfortable with.
8. Talk about any part of your assistance with anyone you choose.
9. Be provided information about limitations of confidentiality and mandatory reporting.
10. Disclose any personal information and refuse to answer any questions asked.
11. Require the advocate/supportive counselor to send a report regarding your assistance with your written authorization only.
12. Have access to summaries of written and taped files about you at your request, when legally possible.
13. Terminate assistance at any time.
Advocacy and supportive counseling is confidential. Information that is shared by you in an advocacy/supportive counseling session will be treated with the highest regard for confidentiality.
SAHC is an equal opportunity agency, this program does not, by act or deed, discriminate against any person desiring assistance based on race, creep, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or socio-economic background.